AMSTERDAM (AP) - Royal Philips Electronics NV is in talks to sell its 33 percent stake in flat panel display maker LG.Philips LCD, Dow Jones Newswires reported Tuesday, a move that could bring it EUR 3.7 billion (US$5 billion) in proceeds.
SEOUL, May 23 (Yonhap) -- South Korean shipbuilders were overtaken by their Chinese rivals in new orders acquired in the first four months of the year, a London-based market researcher said Wednesday.
A wrongful-death lawsuit filed Wednesday claims U.S. Hyundai executives helped a colleague flee the country after a drunken-driving crash that killed a motorcyclist.
May 24 (Reuters) - Germany's Allianz (ALVG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research, Europe's biggest insurer, has agreed to sell all of its 50 percent stake in a South Korean joint-venture insurance firm to the partner, Hana Financial Group, Hana said on Thursday.
Laird Technologies, a global leader of critical components and systems for advanced electronics and wireless products, recently won its patent infringement law suit filed at the Seoul High Court in Korea against SB Telecom in August 2002 for infringement of Laird Technologies' antenna patents registered in Korea related to retractable antennas used in mobile phones.
The family of a professional musician killed in a hit-and-run accident in Orange County filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Hyundai Motor America, alleging that company officials helped one of their colleagues leave the country before he could be questioned by police.
Wylie A. Aitken, an attorney representing the victim's family, said surveillance tapes from Los Angeles International Airport show that Hyundai employees helped Youn Bum Lee become a fugitive, contradicting statements they made to police investigating the crash.
"Justice has certainly been slow in this case," Aitken said, surrounded by Ryan Dallas Cook's parents and three sisters during a news conference at his Santa Ana law office. "But at least we're headed in the right direction." 「司法はこのケースで遅すぎる」と死んだライアン・ダラス・クックの両親と3人の姉妹にかこまれ たアイトキンはサンタ・アナでの弁護士事務所での記者会見で述べた。「だが我々は少なくとも 正しい方向に進んでいる」
Cook, 23, was killed in October 2005 when his motorcycle slammed into Lee's disabled car on the Costa Mesa Freeway. Lee, who had been drinking with colleagues shortly before the crash, left the scene and was on a plane to his native South Korea less than 24 hours later, according to police and court records. 2005年10月の死亡時23歳のクックはリーの動かなくなった車にコスタ・メサ・フリーウェーで つっこみ死亡した。リーは同僚と飲酒をしていたにもかかわらず現場を立ち去り24時間のうちに 母国である韓国に帰ったことを警察と裁判記録は示している。